UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 2, Page 12
September 7, 1995
Faculty and staff
BOOKS
Robert T. Allen, entomology and applied ecology, and Henry W.
Robison of Southern Arkansas University, Only in Arkansas. A
Study of the Endemic Plants and Animals of the State, University
of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, 1995.
PUBLICATIONS
David P.M. Northmore, psychology, with P. Hartline, R. Vimal, A.
King and D. Kurylo of the Eye Research Institute of the Retina
Foundation, "Effects of Eye Position on Auditory Localization and
Neural Representation of Space in Superior Colliculus of Cats,"
in Experimental Brain Research, vol. 104, pages 402-408, 1995.
Barbara Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English,
"Writing for the Birds," in Chattel, Servant or Citizen, Mary
O'Dowd and Sabine Wichert, editors, Institute of Irish Studies,
1995.
Sheldon D. Pollack, accounting, "A New Dynamics of Tax Policy?"
in American Journal of Tax Policy, spring 1995.
Hoe I. Ling and Dov Leshchinsky, civil and environmental
engineering, with Paul Gilbert and Michael Palermo, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, "Geotechnical Consideration Related to In-
Situ Capping of Contaminated Submarine Sediments," in Proceedings
of WEDA Conference, pages 187-199.
PRESENTATIONS
Nancy King, honors program, "Exploring Inter-Disciplinary
Approaches to Literature Using Moa Martinson's My Mother Gets
Married," at Vasterbergs folkhogskola, Aug. 7-11, Stovik, Sweden.
Joachim Piprek, materials science, "Analysis of Long-Wavelength
Vertical-Cavity Lasers," at University of California at Santa
Barbara, July 5, and at Royal Institute of Technology, Aug. 14,
Stockholm.
David P.M. Northmore, psychology, and John G. Elias, electrical
engineering, "Spike Train Processing By a Silicon Neuromorph with
Artificial Dendritic Tree," a poster presentation, at fourth
annual computational neuroscience meeting, July 12-15, Monterey,
Calif.
Patricia A. Martin-DeLeon, biology, with graduate student Bridget
Corkery, "Sperm Segregants from the Murine Rb(11.14) Heterozygote
Fertilizing in vivo and in vitro"; with undergraduates Lisa
Blazejewski and Demian Elder and N. Janicic, Z. Pausova and G.
Hendy of McGill University, Montreal, "Assignment of the Rabbit
Parathyroid Hormone Receptor (PTHR) Gene by Fluorescence in situ
Hybridization to 13q22-24"; and, with undergraduates Blazejewski,
Vinay Harpalani and Vasudha Bhide, "Isolation and
Characterization of Microsatellite Markers in the Rabbit Genome,"
a poster presentation, at ninth North American colloquium on
domestic animal cytogenetics and gene mapping, Texas A&M
University, July 17-20, College Station.
Barbara Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English,
"Reordering Nature: Re-visioning Victorian Science Culture," at
Contents of Victorian Science meeting, May, Toronto; "Site and
Sight in Gertrude Jekyll's Garden Writing," at British
Comparative Literature Association meeting, July 14, Edinburgh,
Scotland; and "Poetry, Prose and the Pre-Raphaelites," at
Delaware Art Museum, Aug. 24.
Rudi Matthee, history, "The Mechanization of the Mint in Iran in
the 19th Century," at Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, June 28,
Jena, Germany.
Karl W. Boer, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Solar
Energy, "Franz-Keldysh Effect and Its Use for Investigating High-
Field Distributions in Semiconductors and Photoconductors," at
Institute of Applied Physics, June 16, University of Erlangen,
Germany; "Electro-optical and Electro-thermo-optical Effects To
Analyze Field and Current Instabilities in CdS Single Crystal
Platelets," at Society for the Advances of Applied Optics, Opto-
electronics and Quantum-electronics meeting, June 27, Berlin-
Adlershof.
Several members of the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences made
presentations at the American Phytopathological Society meeting,
Aug. 11-16, Pittsburgh: Thomas A. Evans with R.J. Rouse, C.E.
Ringer and J.G. Kantzes of the University of Maryland and H.R.
Hillard of Cornell University, a poster presentation, "Occurrence
of Microdochium Blight of Squash on the Delmarva Peninsula";
Robert B. Carroll, a revision of the planning document, "Plant
Pathology Beyond 2000"; R.P. Mulrooney, moderator of session,
"Tree and Shrub Diseases"; and graduate fellow Mohamed Sedegui
participated in a workshop on "Allozyme Analysis for
Identification of Races of the Potato Late Blight Pathogen."
Robert A. Day, English, "International English: How Scientists
Should Communicate" and chaired a session, "Training of Science
Editors and Journalists," at eighth international conference of
International Federation of Science Editors, July 12, Barcelona.
Mohsen Badiey, marine studies, "Coherence of High Frequency
Acoustic Signals in Shallow Ocean Environment," an invited talk,
at Advanced Research Workshop, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos of
Engineering Systems, Aug. 9-13, Aberdeen, Scotland.
SERVICE AND AWARDS
Kathryn L. Kotula, animal and food sciences, as scientific
adviser to the National Broiler Council, was a guest on The
Morning News, July 3, cable news Channel 8 serving Washington,
D.C., suburban Maryland and northern Virginia.
Susan S. Barton, plant and soil sciences and Cooperative
Extension, received the 1995 Nursery Extension Award from the
American Association of Nurserymen, a national organization for
nursery and landscape professionals, for her outstanding
contributions to the industry.
Adarshpal S. Sethi, computer and information sciences, was named
to the board of editors, Journal of Network and Systems
Mangement.
Two members of the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences were
recognized at the American Phytopathological Society meeting,
Aug. 11-16, Pittsburgh. Robert B. Carroll, who served as a
"Society Officers" member of a college bowl-type competition
during the meeting, received a plaque and citation for his
outstanding service as councilor of the Potomac Division from
1992-1995. Thomas A. Evans, who organized and conducted a plant
disease diagnosis competition at the meeting, was appointed to a
three-year term as associate editor of Plant Disease, an
international journal of applied plant pathology.
Karl W. Boer, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Solar
Energy, is author of a patent recently assigned to the
University, "Inverse Delta-Doping for Improved Open-Circuit
Voltage of Solar Cells and Photo Diodes."
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
25 years
Rosemary Cox, Dining Services, Sept. 4, 1970
James Curtis, Winterthur Program, Sept. 1, 1970
Cheryl Lee Thompson, library, Sept. 8, 1970
Charles Woodrum, central stores, Sept. 9, 1970
10 years
Mark Tozer, Transportation Services, Sept. 8, 1985
5 years
Harriet Frank, Publications, Sept. 13, 1990
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